November 01, 2010
As I drove through the urban blight of my hometown of Wilkinsburg on a midsummer day, I was overwhelmed. Our congregation had been reaching out to the ...
Dennis J. Prutow | September 01, 2010
My working definition of preaching expands on definitions given by Phillips Brooks1 and Andrew Blackwood2 and also considers our understanding of ...
August 01, 2010
Atlanta, Georgia, has long been a transportation hub. Its original name was Terminus, signifying the end of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. For ...
August 01, 2010
So when are you going to Haiti?” No “Hi, Dad” or other words of greeting, identification or salutation. My children had embraced with a ...
July 01, 2010
The Presbyterian minister logged nearly 70, 000 miles in the wilds of Colonial America visiting scattered Covenanters. His feat was not by modern ...
Kenneth G. Smith | June 01, 2010
Recently when in Australia, Graeme Hart took me out on the bay there in Geelong in his and his father’s boat. As I looked into the glove ...
May 01, 2010
Ken Sande, a ruling elder in the PCA, is the author of The Peacemaker (Baker). He founded Peacemaker Ministries in 1982 under the auspices of the ...
May 01, 2010
I had not been at this “peacemaking” thing very long, but I was confident about intervening in church conflict—and was even a little cocky. ...
April 01, 2010
One of the times that revitalization took place in the history of God’s people was following the time of Israel’s captivity, when the temple and ...
April 01, 2010
Pastoral renewal! Thirty years ago no one thought much about it. Sabbatical leaves were nearly unheard of. Now such personnel investments are ...
April 01, 2010
Dr. Julius Kim serves at Westminster Seminary in California as a professor in the department of practical theology and as the dean of students. He ...
March 18, 2010
One of the times that revitalization took place in the history of God’s people was following the time of Israel’s captivity, when the temple and ...
March 18, 2010
Pastoral renewal! Thirty years ago no one thought much about it. Sabbatical leaves were nearly unheard of. Now such personnel investments are ...
March 18, 2010
Dr. Julius Kim serves at Westminster Seminary in California as a professor in the department of practical theology and as the dean of students. He ...
March 18, 2010
It seems like a thankless task when teachers face broken families or indifferent parents. But the life of Bill Hull shows the difference made by a ...
March 18, 2010
roubled, Pastor Jim Hastings again sat alone in his office on Monday morning. On his computer screen were three letters he had already composed. He ...
December 23, 2009
Several years ago when the process of rewriting the Testimony of the Reformed Presbyterian Church began, a pastor on the committee surveyed his ...
December 23, 2009
I will confine my brief review to Christ’s use of the Psalms as recorded in the four inspired biographies, but I do not mean to imply by this ...
December 23, 2009
Editor’s Note: As we bring to a close our celebration of our 125th year, this issue will feature a few “oldies but goodies.” Here is an article ...
December 23, 2009
Next week my firm will hold its annual health insurance information meeting. The news won’t be good. Premiums are expected to increase 10-15% after ...
The only congregation of the RPCNA in the state of Wyoming is in Laramie, a small city sprawled across a broad valley along Interstate 80 where the ...
Though unfamiliar to some, since at least Augustine it’s commonplace to speak of man’s fourfold state: the state of innocency, the state of ...
Having grown up in the midst of war-torn Iran and in a strictly Muslim family, at age nine Naghmeh Panahi nonetheless heard the Word of God and ...
I recently learned that quite a few people inquire with the RP Witness for practical suggestions on how congregations can find encouragement for ...